<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks, all, for answering my question—I appreciate the guidance!<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div style=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 21, 2015, at 6:00 AM, <a href="mailto:scribus-request@lists.scribus.net" class="">scribus-request@lists.scribus.net</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Send scribus mailing list submissions to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.net" class="">scribus@lists.scribus.net</a><br class=""><br class="">To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus<br class="">or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>scribus-request@lists.scribus.net<br class=""><br class="">You can reach the person managing the list at<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>scribus-owner@lists.scribus.net<br class=""><br class="">When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br class="">than "Re: Contents of scribus digest..."<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Today's Topics:<br class=""><br class=""> 1. Re: Basic question (William Bader)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 1<br class="">Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:26:26 -0400<br class="">From: William Bader <williambader@hotmail.com><br class="">To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus@lists.scribus.net><br class="">Subject: Re: [scribus] Basic question<br class="">Message-ID: <BLU179-W229C01694AF7E595BF349BC4840@phx.gbl><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">From: tbw@tomwinans.me<br class="">Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:41:05 -0600<br class="">To: scribus@lists.scribus.net<br class="">Subject: [scribus] Basic question<br class=""><br class="">Relative to my request below? my hope is to be able to invoke scribus from the command line without launching the application.. It appears that the current 1.5.x capabilities with the -py switch depend upon starting the application.<br class=""><br class="">Thank you,<br class="">Tom<br class=""><br class="">Tom Winans<br class="">tbw@tomwinans.me <mailto:tbw@tomwinans.me><br class="">http://tomwinans.info <http://tomwinans.info/><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">In Scribus 1.5 and higher, -py runs a script on startup and -g runs without a gui.<br class="">You can run a command like<br class="">scribus -g -py yourscript.py yourdocument.sla<br class="">At least on Linux, Scribus will paint the screen for a second, but it will run the script and exit on its own without any user interaction.<br class="">Dialogs that would ask questions when the gui is enabled will take a reasonable default (usually the option to continue with the operation), and warning messages that would appear in a dialog are written to the console instead.<br class=""><br class="">Regards,William<br class=""><br class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <br class="">-------------- next part --------------<br class="">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br class="">URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20150720/e12d3244/attachment.html><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Subject: Digest Footer<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">scribus mailing list<br class="">scribus@lists.scribus.net<br class="">http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">End of scribus Digest, Vol 88, Issue 23<br class="">***************************************<br class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>